17 First kill

With that, Sakumo and Shun started running towards the address of that informant, as Shun passed the trees, he felt a weird sensation, it was as if he was being watched by someone. He didn't turn his face as he didn't want to startle the person watching him but he was still using Sharingan and rapidly looking in front of him.

After some time, he deactivated his Sharingan as he spoke out to Sakumo, "Sir, 45 degree, I have confirmed two rabbits spotted there." Sakumo seemed surprised as he heard that, he did turn towards that direction through the corner of his eyes and detected them.

With that, they turned towards each other and nodded quietly, they knew what they had to do. Suddenly, both of them disappeared from that location, the pair of shinobis who were watching them were surprised.

They got up as they started to observe the nearby surrounding, "Just where had they gone off to?" Suddenly, that man felt a cold blade at his neck, he heard a cold and mature voice, "Iwa shinobi, I wonder what you are doing here."

The man suddenly smirked as he chuckled, "You are trapped…" Suddenly, he was dispelled as the Sword went past his throat and instead of Blood, it was mud that was there. A sharp Kunai was on the back of Sakumo's throat as the man asked, "So, you are the Konoha's White Fang, you are too overrated."

Sakumo sighed as he heard those words, he spoke out, "You should be more attentive of your surroundings." Now, he pulled out his sword out of the Iwa Shinobi, the Iwa Shinobi felt a sudden pain as the sword was pulled out of his stomach.

He didn't even feel it when he thrust the Sword inside his body because of the Adrenaline rush, he ignored it and started to think of the better opportunity and his secure future after killing the White fang.

Sakumo's cold voice sounded out as he turned towards the dead body, "You should have been aware of your surroundings, I told you that." He sighed at the end of his statement and then turned towards the West direction, "I guess, I should go and help him now."

He jumped up on a tree and finally laid his eyes on Shun's opponent, he was a middle-aged man of almost the same age as Sakumo Hatake, he had a pair of brown coloured eyes with a distinctive scar on the bottom of the right eye.

This was enough for Sakumo to know the identity of the Shun's opponent, it was Iron Rock of the Iwa. This was a B-Rank Shinobi and his defence was quite good, Sakumo was now worried a little for Shun because Shun was just a seven-year-old against Arinold, The Iron Rock of the Iwa.

It was an unfair matchup but he didn't intervene just yet, he wanted to let Shun experience the Shinobi world as soon as possible, he had a strange feeling that this wouldn't be his first mission where he would be trapped or would have to fight against such a ninja.

He must atleast understand how wide the world was, he must know the things in which he still had to improve and the real combat was the perfect way to understand that. This time, he glanced towards Shun and wondered how he was doing against such an opponent.

Shun was just observing his opponent with a calm expression and trying to find out his weakness, Sakumo internally praised the boy that he hadn't just rushed towards this guy and fought him head-on, that would be beyond stupid unless he had some sort of assurance that he could win this.

After observing each other, Arinold was somewhat salty that his opponent turned out to be a kid, he didn't even want to talk to a kid, a kid who hasn't seen the world and was just a frog in the well.

He glanced at his eyes and saw that those were Black orbs that seem to stare at him with a dead intent, it was as if he was dead for him. Shun spoke out a single sentence, "You are obviously very foolish, are you not?"

Arinold was surprised and angered of being called foolish by this child, he growled out, "How dare you call me foolish, you kid?" Shun's cold voice resounded as 3 Kunais suddenly dropped around Arinold's body with a paper tag on them.

Arinold's eyes widened as he saw that, he thought 'Explosives!' And suddenly, all the three kunais exploded at the same time, Shun turned around as he continued to speak, "You are going to be severely injured now. Its no fun to fight you now."

But contrary to his expectations, Arinold was completely guarded as he had used his Earth Chakra to reinforce every part of his body, this was the main reason he was called Iron Rock, his defence was quite something.

Arinold noticed that Shun had his back towards him and suddenly rushed towards him with his full speed, his whole body was covered with a greyish earth chakra, Shun didn't react to Arinold rushing towards him.

His face had a serene expression as he was looking towards the trees in front of him, he opened his mouth once again as he started, "Didn't I tell you before-?" Suddenly, Arinold crashed into him.

Even Sakumo was astonished for a couple of seconds as he couldn't guess why Shun remained standing there and took on the attack, from the speed that the boy had, he knew that it would be a breeze to dodge such a slow attack, so why?

At that moment, suddenly, he heard someone stepping up on the branches and saw Shun jumping high up in the air as he made a single hand sign, Sakumo noticed it straight away 'A Tiger hand seal.'

Shun spoke out, "You are very foolish. Now take this, Fire Style: Grand Fire Ball Jutsu." A large and wide stream of fire was released from his mouth, it was wide enough to completely engulf Arinold and the whole area around him.

He couldn't dodge such an attack and took it head-on, he was quite confident in his armour, this wasn't the first time he had taken on Fire Elemental Attack on top of his Earth Armour. But the strange thing was, the Fire was a little hotter than a normal Fire, the Earth Armour's colour turned Black as it simultaneously got brittle.

The fire went out and Shun was flying back due to the momentum and force he exerted in using the Jutsu, he made a horse seal in the air and an identical Shun was formed in the air and threw him towards Arinold who was trying to recover from that Horrifying effects of the Fireball Jutsu.

Shun flew down as he pulled out a kunai from his holster, his eyes had a sharp expression as he didn't hesitate to aim towards Arinold's body.

"You can't scratch me with that kunai!" Arinold exclaimed as he laughed out loudly, he was absolutely confident in his defence, even in this state, his Earth Chakra should be able to block that kunai.

The kunai struck with Arinold's body and stopped for mere few seconds, "You are right, scratching isn't what it will do!" Suddenly, the kunai was pushed into his heart and Arinold screamed out loudly, "AAAAAAHHHHHHH......."

The Kunai was quite hot as the Kunai finally left his hands and he kicked Arinold's stomach and threw him away towards the bunch of burned up trees. The kunai wasn't too deep in Arinold's body so he still had some breaths left, "You… you have completed your fire elemental training."

Before dying, he had a look of worry on his face, "Looks like Konoha has quite a ninja now…" And with that, he drew his last breath and closed his eyes. Shun turned towards his east, the direction in which Sakumo was standing with a surprised expression.